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                     *  User's Manual Supplement   *
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                     *  CMFiler -- Version 5.54    *
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     The printed user's manual being sent to registered users as of the date
     of this file is current to Version 5.37b.  Any registered users who wish
     to receive a copy of this latest printed manual may order by sending $5
     to NoVaSoft.  This essentially covers our printing and mailing costs.

     The following features have been added or improved since the printing of
     the CMFiler Version 5.37b user's manual:

     TREE IMAGE FACILITY:  The tree module now has a feature that captures to
     the C drive (C:\~TREES~) an image file of the tree for each drive C or
     greater when it is first accessed.  This image is then available for use
     as a quick alternative to rereading the whole drive the next time the
     tree module is entered and that drive is selected.  The image file loads
     the tree structure in a fraction of the time it takes to read the whole
     drive and construct the directory and file list.

     The first time it is run in tree mode, CMFiler explains three basic setup
     options to help the user use this new feature in the best way.  In one
     option, you can tell CMFiler to ask permission to reread the drive and
     refresh the tree image on file after copying a structure into the drive
     tree.  It is often convenient, if you have several structures to copy, to
     wait until the last before rereading the drive and refreshing the tree
     image.

     The tree image can also be manually updated using Shift-R (Refresh tree).
     The Tree image option menu can be brought up with Ctrl-O.

     FULL COLOR SELECTION CAPABILITY:  Press Ctrl-P to select from four
     palettes.  However, each palette can now be edited by pressing E within
     the palette facility.  Each of five colors in the file list display can
     be selected by arrowing around an 8x8 color array, and pressing the
     spacebar when the desired color is reached.  The affect of each selection
     is shown as the arrow is moved around the color array, so no guesswork is
     required.

     This new facility is best used with both panels open, and some files
     tagged in one of the panels, since the file tagging color and both the
     source and target path line colors are independently variable.  When
     finished editing one palette, hit Enter to return to the original level
     of the palette facility, and either Enter to set that palette as the
     default choice, or another key to rotate to the next palette.  The editor
     and tree displays are not independently adjustable, but take their colors
     from the current palette.

     The palette edit routine (Ctrl-P, E) now has the option to toggle the
     high-intensity bit selectively for each color field.  The command "T" in
     the color menu toggles between high- and normal-intensity foreground
     color attribute.

     In addition, we have added to the color palette exit sequence the option
     to set an internal flag which causes a "pip" to be shown in front of the
     extension of each file with today's date stamp, and colors the extensions
     of certain "preferred" files differently from the normal file color.  The
     initial setting of this flag is "on", and the "preferred" extensions
     which are specified for the special colors are the executables -- .COM,
     .EXE, .BAT and .BTM.  The flag may be turned off, and the preferred
     extension colors may be edited:

        1.  When you leave the palette menu with the Enter key, you will be
     asked if you want to flag today's files and the "preferred" files.
     executables.  If you answer No, the exit sequence is complete.

        2.  If you answer Yes, you will be given an opportunity to edit the
     colors for each of the preferred extensions in the same way as you edited
     the main palette colors.  When you are finished, exit this secondary
     color facility with the Enter key.

     The preferred extensions may themselves be edited in the Ctrl-O Order
     menu.

     ENHANCEMENT TO FILE ORDERING:  In the main module, the Ctrl-O Order menu
     has been expanded to include a switch, toggled with P, to cause the
     appearance of files with the "preferred" extensions ahead of all others
     in any file listing.  The preferred extensions can be edited from this
     menu with the keystroke command E.

     PATH ALIAS FACILITY:  A "path alias" facility now exists in the main
     module.  This allows assigning the commands Alt-1 through Alt-9 to your
     nine most frequently used directories, for instant navigation from any
     drive and path.  To assign a path to the alias list, first go to the
     subdirectory you want to add, then press Alt-A (for Alias).  The Alias
     menu shows a list numbered 1 through 9, each with a user-definable title
     and path.  Pick a free number, press it and type in the title you want as
     your key for the path.  Hitting Enter saves the alias.

     To navigate to that aliased path instantly, either press Alt- and the
     number you assigned (if you remember), or press Alt-A, look over the
     list, and while still holding down the Alt-key press the number.  The
     alias facility can also be used in place of pressing a drive letter after
     the New drive command, or when arrowing over to the right-hand panel when
     it is blank.  The Shift- key, used with Alt-1 through Alt-9, puts the
     aliased path into the opposite panel and goes across to it, in much the
     same way as Shift-\, Shift-P and Shift-Enter on a directory name act to
     put the selected directory into the opposite path and jump across.

     JUMP COMMAND:  A new Jump facility may be used to jump to another path.
     In either panel, press J, and type in the new path, including drive if
     desired.  If the path exists, CMFiler will read and display its directory
     contents and set it as the new path for that panel.

     FILE SPLITTER:  We have added to the main module a file splitter, called
     by Alt-S.  With the target panel set up as the destination path for the
     split files, position the cursor on a file in the source panel and press
     Alt-S.  CMFiler first asks for confirmation that you desire to split the

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     file into smaller files, with extensions .A00, .A01, ..., .A99, .B00,
     etc.  The it asks for the file size for the split files, in Kb.  Split
     files are created in the target path, and the original file is left
     untouched in the source.  File splitter provides option to split files at
     nearest end-of-line, which is useful in splitting text files.  File
     splitter also works with a single panel open.

     SWAPPING PANELS:  In the main and tree modules, you can quickly swap
     panels left-for-right and right-for-left, keeping the cursor in the same
     panel, left or right, with the new command Ctrl-W (for sWap).

     POPUP ASCII TABLE:  The editor/viewer now has a popup ASCII table, called
     with the command Ctrl-A.  Navigate through the table with the Arrow keys
     or mouse to highlight a specific character, then type that character with
     Enter or the mouse left button.

     BUG FIXES AND MISCELLANEOUS:

     o   We have added to the file display ordering options (Ctrl-O menu) a
     switch, toggled with "E", which when set causes the executable files to
     appear first in the file listings, in the order .COM, .EXE, .BAT and
     .BTM, followed by all other files, in the order specified.

     o   The new command Ctrl-K decrements the cursor height on each keypress.
     The cursor height is now a savable parameter using Shift-S.

     o   Corrected a bug in the navigation routines in the tree module that
     occasionally caused confusion when navigating using the Shift-Up/Down
     arrows in a directory level in which one or more directories had been
     deleted since the last tree refreshing operation.

     o   Revised the display routines to show the time in 12-hour format, with
     the letter "p" for post-meridian times. (Absence of a "p" implies ante-
     meridian, including the hours from 12 midnight to 1 AM.)

     o   When you select a disk containing deleted files in a ~TRASH~
     directory the first time each new day, CMFiler asks if you want to leave
     it alone, purge (hard-delete) its files, or view it.  Heretofore, if you
     specified viewing ~TRASH~, you would be returned to the root directory
     when you were finished, even if some other directory had been specified,
     for example as an initial path parameter in the command line.  Now
     CMFiler remembers the specified path, and returns to it after you leave
     ~TRASH~ with the \ (Root) or P (Parent) command.

     o   Corrected a bug in the file copying routine in the main module that
     was causing incorrect attributes to be assigned to the target files.

     o   File compression and extraction can now by done with only the left
     panel open.  In this case, the same path serves as source and target for
     compression or extracton.

     o   When you select a disk containing deleted files in a ~TRASH~
     directory the first time each new day, CMFiler asks if you want to leave
     it alone, purge (hard-delete) its files, or view it.  Heretofore, if you
     specified viewing ~TRASH~, you would be returned to the root directory
     when you were finished, even if some other directory had been specified,
     for example as an initial path parameter in the command line.  Now

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     CMFiler remembers the specified path, and returns to it after you leave
     ~TRASH~ with the \ (Root) or P (Parent) command.

     o   Improved the handling of errors during floppy formatting/duplicating,
     and added self-checking "boot-through" code to the boot sector placed on
     CMFiler-formatted diskettes.

     o   In the confirmation request for file deletion, a choice has been
     added to switch deletion type between "soft" and "hard".

     o   Corrected a bug in the file copying routines that could cause
     assignment of incorrect file attributes to the copied files.

     o   Corrected a bug in the rename facility that caused failures in name
     swapping.











































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